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Critics of Git, if someone had to improve from its weaknesses.
sha1 was a bad choice back then. The moral here is "treat your identifiers as opaque strings" along with "sometimes a sha1: prefix doesn't hurt anyone"
Email and names in every commits:
I guess when you read lkml, the notion of spam isn't too worrying, but putting names and emails into every commit means any time someone changes name or email, they might as well be a whole different person to the repo.
Sure enough, when you store names in the files, you have to rewrite history when someone changes email address, but in another world, you'd use a UUID and a file called .gitauthors that maps one to the other
There are two different mechanisms for almost every feature.
git forces you to make a choice. use merge and get a noisy, but representative history. use rebases and lose some of the work, but the log is a lot easier to navigate.
we could also have a version of git log that didn't make merges look like shit, but that's another problem altogether.
the unix philosophy is about building toolkits, not applications
in other words: have you ever accidentally committed inside a rebase? or accidentally committed a conflict? tough shit, fucko.
git commands are named after implementation, not use, and there's absolutely no excuse for it
flat files kind of suck if your state gets corrupted.
git is made from papercuts
there's bits where you can't check in an empty directory, or how you can set files to ignore but not files to include.
